"FOREIGN SERVICES (FRANCE, BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND).
Communication may be obtained between London and Paris
(including the suburbs), Brussels, Antwerp, Basle, Geneva,
Lausanne, and certain provincial towns in France and Belgium.
Full particulars may be obtained on application to the
Controller."
We are afraid these facilities, as far as Belgium is concerned, will
shortly be withdrawn. The new Postmaster-General has heard that there is
a war on.
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"Winter Laying Strain pure bred White Leghorn Cockerels; record
layers: 5s."
_Bath & Wilts Chronicle._
Smith minor's translation of _ab ovo usque ad mala_ is thus justified:
"It is up to the males to lay eggs."
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"'Thundering' and 'nous' are two of the expressive words of
which Sir Ian Hamilton made use of in his Suvla Bay report. It
was the Royal Artillery that did 'thundering good shooting.'
'Nous,' meaning gumption, is a word greatly in use in
Lancashire."
_Daily Mirror._
It has also been met with in Greece.
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"Two labourers employed by the ---- Distillery Company fell a
distance of fifty feet into a barley vat yesterday, and when
released were found to be suffering from carbolic acid
poisoning."--_Weekly Dispatch._
This paragraph will no doubt be freely quoted by temperance advocates as
showing what whiskey is really made of.
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